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A hundred years of music / by Gerald Abraham.

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Main Author:	Abraham, Gerald, 1904-1988
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Duckworth, 1974.
Edition:	4th ed.
Subjects:	Music > 19th century > History and criticism. Music > 20th century > History and criticism. Music Musik > Geschichte 19. Jh. Musik > Geschichte 20. Jh. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

After Beethoven. Prelude : music in the eighteen-thirties
Romantic music : its spirit and forms
Romantic music : its texture and style
The neo-classical reaction : choral and chamber music of the period
Wagner and the opera. Opera in the 'thirties and 'forties
Wagner and the music-drama
Wagner the musician
Interlude : music in the eighteen-sixties
After Wagner. Early nationalist schools
Brahms and the great instrumental tradition
The progress of non-Wagnerian opera
Interlude : music in the eighteen-nineties
The heritage of Liszt and Wagner
The twentieth century. The reaction against romanticism : impressionism
Later nationalist tendencies
Interlude : music in the nineteen-twenties
Tendencies between the wars : neo-classicism and the twelve-note system.